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Historical Event on 12/28/1981

Salman Rushdie is awarded the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children.

Other Historical Dates and Events
1/21/1820Dalpat Rai, modern Gujrati poet, was born.
10/2/1951Dr. Shyamprasad Mukharjee established Bhartiya JanSangh Party.
7/15/1948Establishment of 'PEPS' (Patiyala and East Punjab States Union).
3/24/1974Lokprabha weekly started its publication.
3/14/1967Vijay Yadav, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper between More & Mongia), was born in Gonda.
2/8/1995Mulayam Singh wins the crucial vote of strength.
7/18/1998The Maharashtra Government bans the controversial Marathi play on Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mahatma Gandhi. It was produced by Mr. Udhay Dhurat.
3/22/1933M.V.Nagendra, cricket test umpire for 11 tests from 1963-77, was born at Karnataka.
6/8/2000Bomb blasts rock churches in three states (A.P, Karnataka and Goa).
4/6/1942During the second world war, for the first time Japanese air-bombers attacked India, and the mainland took place at Visakhapatnam.